"her company in staged productions, ""The Peasant Cantata"" and ""The Coffee Cantata"". In 1931 a recording was made of a performance of , in Barcelona. The number of performances and recordings increased in the decades after the Second World War. In the early 1950s Fritz Lehmann recorded several cantatas with the Berliner Motettenchor and the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1953, Max Thurn conducted for the broadcaster NDR a series of Bach cantatas, with members of the NDR Chor and members of the NDR Sinfonieorchester. Karl Richter called his choir programmatically Münchener Bach-Chor in 1954 and recorded about a third of the"
"musk or ambergris. In England, in 1723, there was a recipe for red hippocras containing milk and brandy. The drink was well liked during medieval and Elizabethan times. Moreover, doctors prescribed it to aid digestion. It was served at most banquets all over Europe. The drink was highly prized during the high and late Middle Ages. In France, it has been noted as the favorite drink of notorious baron Gilles de Rais, who reportedly drank several bottles every day and had his victims drink it prior to assault. Later, King Louis XIV of France was also known to enjoy it."
"to a Bloody Mary but with a uniquely spicy flavour. Chell said his inspiration came from Italy. He recalled that in Venice, they served Spaghetti alle vongole, spaghetti with tomato sauce and clams. He reasoned that the mixture of clams and tomato sauce would make a good drink, and mashed clams to form a ""nectar"" that he mixed with other ingredients. According to Chell's granddaughter, his Italian ancestry led him to call the drink a ""Caesar"". The longer name of ""Bloody Caesar"" is said to differentiate the drink from the Bloody Mary, but Chell said it was a regular patron"
"pour boire and Air à boire. The first record of a drinking song dates to the 11th century, and derives from the Carmina Burana, a 13th-century historical collection of poems, educational songs, love sonnets and ""entertainment"" or drinking songs. Franz Schubert wrote several lieder (art songs) known as ""Trinklied"": ""Trinklied"" by Einstürzende Neubauten (1985) ""Broad Lic Nic"" by The Doug Anthony All Stars (1990) ""The Blarney Stone"" by Ween (1997) ""Booze Me Up And Get Me High"" by Ween (1997) ""Bliss (Th' Dudes song)"" (1980) Music Video (NZOnScreen) ""S.O.B. by Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (2015) Drinking song A"
"by a British pop group, which went on to win a Eurovision title. Buck's Fizz The Buck's Fizz is an alcoholic cocktail made of two parts champagne to one part orange juice. It is very similar to the Mimosa, which also contains champagne and orange juice, but in equal measures. Other sparkling wines can also be used. The drink is named after London's Buck's Club, where it was invented as an excuse to begin drinking early; it was first served in 1921 by a barman named Malachy McGarry (who features in the works of P. G. Wodehouse as the barman"
"in the ""Freiestrasse"" will be filled with hippocras, spelled in the Swiss German of Basel, hypokras. In Basel it is a tradition in winter to drink hypokras and eat the famous Basler läggerli with it. The drink eventually inspired the Spaniards in their creation of sangria. While sweeter than hippocras, sangria was originally made with spices, including cinnamon, ginger, and pepper. Hippocras Hippocras (), sometimes spelled hipocras or hypocras, is a drink made from wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, and possibly heated. After steeping the spices in the sweetened wine for a day, the spices are"
"Mimosa (cocktail) A mimosa cocktail is composed of one part champagne (or other sparkling wine) and one part chilled citrus juice, usually orange juice unless otherwise specified. It is traditionally served in a tall champagne flute at brunch, at weddings, by the pint, or as part of first class service on some passenger railways and airlines. It is believed to have been invented at the Hôtel Ritz Paris by Frank Meier, in about 1925. It is probably named after the common name in Europe for the yellow flowers of ""Acacia dealbata"". The Buck's Fizz is a similar type of cocktail,"
"Royal court at Versailles, where it became known as Tokay. Emperor Franz Josef (who was also King of Hungary) had a tradition of sending Queen Victoria Tokaji Aszú wine, as a gift, every year on her birthday, one bottle for every month she had lived, twelve for each year. On her eighty-first and final birthday (1900), this totaled an impressive 972 bottles. Tokaji wine has received accolades from numerous great writers and composers including Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich von Schiller, Bram Stoker, Johann Strauss II, and Voltaire. The composer Joseph Haydn's favorite wine was Tokaji. Besides Louis"
"it was praised by the poet Li Bai. In ancient times, ""choujiu"" was referred to as ""láolǐ"" (醪醴) or ""yùjiāng"" (玉浆). In the modern day, the city of Xi'an is known particularly for its ""choujiu"". ""Doburoku"" ( / ) is the Japanese equivalent of ""choujiu"", and in Korea ""gamju"" and ""makgeolli"" are similar. Choujiu Choujiu is a type of Chinese fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from glutinous rice. It is very thick and has a milky white color, which is sometimes compared to jade. Fermentation is carried out by a combination of the fungus ""Aspergillus oryzae"", which converts the rice starches"
"wine and suggests that British merchants were producing ""sparkling Champagne"" even before the French Champenois were deliberately making it. Concurrently, advances in glass manufacture in Britain, by George Ravenscroft and others, allowed more robust wine bottle to be made which could contain the effervescence without exploding. The popularity of sparkling Champagne steadily grew. In 1663, the British poet Samuel Butler penned the first written English reference to ""brisk"" (i.e. frothy) Champagne in his poem ""Hudibras"". The 1698 George Farquhar play ""Love and a Bottle"" featured one of the characters marveling at the steady stream of bubbles in a glass of"
"is traditionally bottled at a high level of alcohol by volume, but it is normally diluted with water prior to being consumed. Absinthe originated in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland in the late 18th century. It rose to great popularity as an alcoholic drink in late 19th- and early 20th-century France, particularly among Parisian artists and writers. The consumption of absinthe was opposed by social conservatives and prohibitionists, partly due to its association with bohemian culture. Absinthe drinkers included Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh,"
"Cocktails with cachaça There are many cocktails made with cachaça, the national spirit of Brazil. Caipirinha is by far the most popular and internationally well-known. The Caipirinha is Brazil's national cocktail made with cachaça, ice, sugar, and lime. It is the drink most commonly associated with cachaça. If vodka is used instead of cachaça, it is called a caipiroska or caipivodka; if rum is used it is called a caipiríssima; if strawberry or some other fruit is used instead of lime, it is usually called a batida or caipifruta. Batida is a Brazilian cocktail made with the national alcoholic drink"
"fruit of the hawthorn tree, and resembles crab apples; they have a sweet-sour flavor and an orange to golden yellow color. Other ingredients in ""ponche"" are prunes, pears, dry hibiscus, star anise, and sugar cane pieces. ""Agua loca"" (""crazy water"") is a very sweet punch usually made from fermented sugarcane, mezcal or tequila mixed with ""aguas frescas"" (usually agua de Jamaica or horchata). Due to its sweetness, the drinker may not taste the alcohol and become intoxicated more quickly than anticipated. This drink is popular on college campuses as an inexpensive means of becoming intoxicated. Punch is called in Swedish"
"20th century. A 1905 article in the National Police Gazette mentions the drink and credits a New Jersey bartender named Frank J. May as its creator. A 1913 news article mentions that sales of the drink had suffered due to the involvement of Bald Jack Rose in the Rosenthal murder case. There are various theories as to the origin of the drink's name. One has the drink being named after (or even invented by) the infamous gambler Bald Jack Rose. Albert Stevens Crockett states that it is named after the pink ""Jacquemot"" (also known as Jacqueminot or Jacque) rose. It"
"this appellation, neither drink is a champagne or a cola. Due to its distinctive color, is sometimes known as black brewed beer. In fact, in Chile the word ""malta"" means a Schwarzbier beer. Malta is high in B vitamins. Some breweries, like Albani Brewery of Denmark, fortify their non-alcoholic beverages with Vitamin B complex. Albani Brewery claims on their website to have been the first brewery to create non-alcoholic malt beverages in 1859. Malta (soft drink) Malta is a lightly carbonated malt beverage, brewed from barley, hops, and water much like beer; corn and caramel color may also be added."
"is sometimes fortified with a shot or more of vodka. The ""Heller Moritz"" is ""Hefeweizen"" served with a ""piccolo"" (Italian: small bottle) of champagne and a slice of lemon. The Bismarck, named for a favorite drink of a nineteenth-century German Chancellor, is made with equal amounts of ""Köstritzer"" (a ""Schwarzbier)"" and champagne. It is served in a beer stein and is similar to a black velvet. The Thuringia, ""Kalte Ente"" (cold duck) is 2 parts ""Pilsner"" to one part German lemonade, with an additional shot of ""Kirsch."" The ""Bierkut"" is half ""Pilsner"" combined with a mixture of vodka and orange"
"to Notre-Dame de Paris. Part of the Holy Sponge is said to be still preserved at the church of St. Jacques de Compiègne in France. Charlemagne also is said to have acquired a piece of the sponge, which is venerated in the cathedral at his capital, Aachen. Holy Sponge The Holy Sponge is one of the Instruments of the Passion of Jesus Christ. It was dipped in vinegar (or in some translations sour wine), most likely posca, a favorite beverage of Roman soldiers, and offered to Christ to drink during the Crucifixion, according to Matthew 27:48; Mark 15:36; and John"
"I drank Moet et Chandon"". Even some varieties are mentioned in song such as the song entitled ""Sauvignon"" by Hubert Lapaire in 1926: ""I dounn'rais the burgundy vou the Burgundian And all your sacred champagne wines for a little keg of sauvignon Who gilds the cotiau of nout campaign It is v'louteux it is blondin It is of the little wine franch'ment kind ... If bin before St. Martin J'mettrons the throat under the champ'lure"" Closer to home Boris Vian celebrated ""Muscadet in green glasses, a fresh wine, What cheers"" in his song ""Mechanical Music"". Jacques Higelin wrote the song"
"that he and his companion will go to San Francisco and ""drink Kirschwasser from a shell"". In 1943's ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,"" English officer Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) and his former dueling opponent Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff of the German army (Anton Walbrok) bond over glasses of kirshwasser while recuperating from their respective injuries. In Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel ""Elephants Can Remember"" it is observed that the recurring character Ariadne Oliver prefers to drink Kirsch. Kirsch A kirschwasser (, ; , German for ""cherry water"") or kirsch is a clear, colorless fruit brandy traditionally made from double distillation"
"good acidity, although complex sweet whites (Tokaj), elegant (Eger) and full-bodied robust reds (Villány and Szekszárd). The main varieties are: Olaszrizling, Hárslevelű, Furmint, Pinot gris or Szürkebarát, Chardonnay (whites), Kékfrankos (or Blaufrankisch in German), Kadarka, Portugieser, Zweigelt, Cabernet sauvignon, Cabernet franc and Merlot. The most famous wines from Hungary are Tokaji Aszú and Egri Bikavér. Tokaji, meaning ""of Tokaj"", or ""from Tokaj"" in Hungarian, is used to label wines from the wine region of Tokaj-Hegyalja. Tokaji wine has received accolades from numerous great writers and composers including Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert and Goethe; Joseph Haydn's favorite wine was a Tokaji. Louis"
"conquered by the Spanish, the drink was banned and their orchards were destroyed. Balché Balché is a mildly intoxicating beverage that was commonly consumed by the ancient Maya in what is now Mexico and upper Central America. Today, it is still common among the Yucatec Maya. The drink is made from the bark of a leguminous tree, ""Lonchocarpus longistylus"", which is soaked in honey and water, and fermented. A closely related beverage, made from honey produced from the nectar of a species of morning glory ""(Turbina corymbosa)"", is called ""xtabentún"". According to food writer Sandor Katz, the ancient Maya consumed"
"lambic and a much lighter, freshly brewed beer to which brown sugar (or sometimes caramel or molasses) was added. The fresh beer was referred to as ""meertsbier"", and was not necessarily a lambic. Sometimes herbs were added as well. The use of meertsbier (or water) and of substandard lambic in the blend made this a cheap, light, sweet drink for everyday consumption. The 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire commented on faro's disagreeable aftertaste, ""It's beer that you drink twice"", believing that the Faro in Brussels was brewed from the waters of a river (the Senne or Zenne) that was"
"Chaas Chaas () is a dahi (yogurt)-based drink popular across Indian subcontinent. It is also written ""chhaachh."" In the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it is called ""ghol"". It is often called ""laban"" in the Old Dhaka in Bangladesh. In Indian English, it is often called ""buttermilk"". Chaas is made by churning yogurt (curds/dahi) and cold water together in a pot, using a hand-held instrument called ""madhani"" (whipper). This can be consumed plain or seasoned with a variety of spices. Chaas can be made from fresh yogurt, and the natural flavour of such Chaas is mildly sweet. This type"
"to everyone in the family including children. In pre-industrialized Sweden, these drinks were made from malt, juniper, birch sap and honey. The drink made from juniper was considered the poor man's drink and the birch sap even more so. Malt drinks were regarded as the best and were served at special occasions. Simpler drinks made from honey were not brewed like mead. After the honey had been extracted from the honeycombs, they were boiled in water. After cooling, the wax was removed and the remaining honey water left to ferment. Only two of these are still frequently used with meals:"
"Jillz Jillz, (""formerly known as Charli"") is a mix of cider, barley and water with a fruity flavor. The drink is called a “Sparkling Cider Blend” and contains 5 percent alcohol. Jillz is brewed by Heineken, a Dutch brewing company, and is available both bottled in supermarkets and on tap in bars. After research showed that in Britain “Charli” is slang for cocaine, this name was changed. With this drink, Heineken targets consumers who go out regularly but cannot identify with the current variety of alcoholic beverages. Research performed by Heineken indicates that 63% of women find the taste of"
"explode, the brewer knew his schnarg was ready. ""Schnarq"" was distilled from what was left behind in the casks from brewing schnarg, and was an extremely popular beverage. ""Kummis"" was made from fermented weasel's milk, and was favored by the Huns. ""Skumjas"" was distilled from something too disgusting to mention (called ""Skumjack"" in Venturian). And ""screech"" (based on the Newfoundland drink of that name), like vodka, was distilled from whatever was available. A shot of screech would cause the drinker to screech in agony, thus the name. Its taste did not recommend it. It was a favorite drink of the"
"Hennchata The Hennchata is a cocktail consisting of Hennessy cognac and Mexican rice horchata agua fresca. It was invented by Vanessa Guizar in San Jose, California. The Hennchata consists of 4 oz horchata plus 1.5 oz (50 ml bottle) of Hennessy V.S. Jorgé Sanchez, owner of CHACHO’S was first to serve the Hennchata in a thick-walled, stemmed chavela glass with the bottle of cognac inverted in a plastic holder clipped to the rim; the brandy bottle empties itself as the level of horchata falls, making the drink more alcoholic as it is consumed. The drink was created by Vanessa Guizar"
"a beverage similar to the Mojito by mixing aguardiente, sugar, lime, and mint. He coined the drink “El Draque” after the nickname of his head , Sir Francis Drake. An example of a Signature drink designed for an establishment is the Bellini. It was concocted by Giuseppe Cipriani, the bartender and owner of Harry’s Bar in Venice, Italy. Italian white peaches were one of Cipriani’s favorite fruits, but were only available from June to September. In a moment of inspiration he created this refreshing summer beverage by combining the fresh white peaches with prosecco. He named his cocktail after Giovanni"
"exclude water altogether and have 30% alcohol by volume (ABV) or more. Punch is an apéritif. Punch is a mix between white wine and different kind of fruits, like diced canned peaches. Punch (""Punsch"" in German) refers to a mixture of several fruit juices and spices, often with wine or liquor added. Punch is popular in Germany and with many Germans who emigrated to America. It often includes a ""Feuerzangenbowle"" (""Burnt Punch"" or, literally, ""Fire Tongs Bowl""). This is a punch made of red wine and flaming rum, poured over a ""Zuckerhut"" (sugarloaf), a large conical sugar cube placed in"
"more palatable when mixed with milk. When he returned to England, he brought the recipe with him, introducing milk chocolate to England. The aristocratic nature of the drink led to chocolate being referred to as ""the drink of the gods"" in 1797. The Spanish began to use ""jicaras"" made of porcelain in place of the hollowed gourds used by the natives. They then further tinkered with the recipes by using spices such as cinnamon, black pepper, anise, and sesame. Many of these things were used to try to recreate the flavor of the native flowers which they could not easily"
"Gin Gin is liquor which derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries (""Juniperus communis""). Gin is one of the broadest categories of spirits, all of various origins, styles, and flavour profiles that revolve around juniper as a common ingredient. From its earliest origins in the Middle Ages, the drink has evolved from a herbal medicine to an object of commerce in the spirits industry. Gin was developed based on the older Dutch liquor, jenever, and became popular in Great Britain (particularly in London) when William of Orange became King William III of England. The earliest known written reference to genever"
"Cassia wine Cassia wine, osmanthus wine, or Kuei Hua Chen Chiew is an alcoholic Chinese drink, sometimes sweetened, produced from weak baijiu and flavored with sweet osmanthus flowers. It is distilled, but typically has an alcohol content less than 20%. While the plant itself is sometimes associated with cinnamon, the blossoms' lactones impart a flavor closer to apricots and peaches. Owing to the timing of the plant's blossoms, cassia wine is the traditional choice for the ""reunion wine"" drunk on the Mid-Autumn or Mooncake Festival. From the homophony between and (meaning ""long"" in the sense of time passing), cassia wine"
"as (Modern Standard Mandarin: ""guì""). Cassia wine Cassia wine, osmanthus wine, or Kuei Hua Chen Chiew is an alcoholic Chinese drink, sometimes sweetened, produced from weak baijiu and flavored with sweet osmanthus flowers. It is distilled, but typically has an alcohol content less than 20%. While the plant itself is sometimes associated with cinnamon, the blossoms' lactones impart a flavor closer to apricots and peaches. Owing to the timing of the plant's blossoms, cassia wine is the traditional choice for the ""reunion wine"" drunk on the Mid-Autumn or Mooncake Festival. From the homophony between and (meaning ""long"" in the sense"